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1 point for each task, you may get half point for a task, so it is worth to try
each. Boundries are as usual, 5+ points is 5 . . . less than 2 is not enough.
You have 90 minutes to work.

Good work!

1. Find the extremal value of the function f (x) = (x + 4)(3x − 7) + 4 and

decide, whether it is a minimum or a maximum point!

2. Find the extremal value of the function f (x) = 2(x+2−x2 )+4x2 −3x+4
and decide, whether it is a minimum or a maximum point!

3. There is a phone company with 25000 customers. Every customer pays

4000Ft a year. The company wants to have more customers, so they
decide to lower the fee (a year) by 50Ft. If they do so, they will get
400 more customers. What’s the maximum income they can achieve?

4. Uncle Fred wants to build a house. Before he can do that, he has to

buy land. He has 33 million Forint for the whole business. The price
of the house is 25 million Ft. For the fence he wants to spend 1 million
Ft, in the nearest shop 1m fence costs 1000Ft. Can he buy the largest
(area) land which he can encircle with the fence, when 1m2 land costs
150000Ft?

5. A window is to be constructed in the shape of an equilateral triangle

on top of a rectangle. If its perimeter is to be 600 cm, what is the
maximum possible area of the window?

6. A rectangle is inscribed in a right triangle whose sides are 5, 12, and

13 inches. Two adjacent sides of the rectangle lie along the legs of the
triangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle of maximum area?
What is the maximum area?

7. Postal regulations require that the sum of the length and girth of a rect-
angular package may not exceed 108 inches (the girth is the perimeter
of an end of the box). What is the maximum volume of a package with
square ends that meets this criteria?

8. A closed rectangular box with a square base is to have a surface area

of 150 in2 . What is the maximum possible volume such a box can
contain?